Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 — As many of you know, Revision3's servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It's an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn't your normal cybercrime - there's a chilling twist at the end.

Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender — The CEO of Revision3 - Jim Louderback - was quite surprised when he found out that MediaDefender was the source of the attack that took down their entire network this weekend. He found out that MediaDefender used the Revision3 BitTorrent tracker …

Dell delivers: Is a turnaround in sight? — Dell's fiscal first quarter results topped expectations courtesy of strong growth in its commercial and consumer businesses. — On Thursday, Dell reported net income of $784 million, or 38 cents a share, on revenue of $16.07 billion, which was up 9 percent from a year ago.

Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? — When you're as large as Comcast, you can't please all of the people, all of the time. Although it has done so in other ways too, Comcast managed to annoy a large portion of its customer base with its throttling activities …

Why Did Facebook Give Up on Beacon? — When speaking at the D6 Conference out in Carlsbad California, Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that Beacon was a big mistake. While I was personally a big critic of the system due to the inability to opt-in and the default setting of opt-out, I don't think that Beacon was a horrendous idea.

Gmail Labs? — Google pre-announced a mysterious new feature for Gmail. “On Thursday, June 5th we're going to be launching a new Gmail feature that we like to think of as a next evolution of 20% time. It's a change in our development process and in the way users will be able to influence Gmail's design.”

We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment — SAN FRANCISCO—When it comes to search quality, Google has a split personality. — Google uses a method called split A/B testing to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search Web site—both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces.

Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google — Barack Obama's campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful's online ad dollars was Google.